Pogo Insider Wrap-Up: January 29, 2019

Sneak peek of Sweet Tooth Town, a new HTML5 game coming to Pogo (shown above). The images say “Build shops and bring Sweet Tooth Town to life!”, “Match candies to meet level goals and win.”, “Charge up shopkeeper abilities to unleash candied chaos.”, and “Overcome sticky taffy, caramel blockers and more.” This game is expected to be available in February.

Sneak peek of a scene in Claire Hart Classic, coming Thursday. The good news is that it looks almost exactly like the original.

February’s Game of the Month will be Word Whomp HD.

The Solitaire Gardens marathon announced in the last Pogo Insider blog post has been changed to Mahjong Escape. It will begin February 5th. Another 10-game marathon is slated to start in mid-February. And the Solitaire Gardens marathon will be at the end of February.

Claire Hart Soul Searcher has been removed from Pogo in preparation to migrate it to Claire Hart Classic. The last Pogo Insider blog post gave a release date of 1/31 for its HD replacement, however today’s post says the new version “will go live the same day”. It is not yet live at the time of this post. Stay tuned.

This has been added to clarify the note about the Mini Mall having its last release March 7th: “Your wardrobe of Mini items will remain available to you, along with tons of items in the store.”

Question for Pogo: Do you know if (enter game name here) will be transferred over to HD?

Sure, it could still be coming in late February, but removing it from the list does sort of read like it’s been delayed. As with most of this stuff, Pogo is always just vague enough we never really know until we know, if you know what I mean. 🙂

This is in the blog post for today: it is still slated for late February…

New Games:

Claire Hart Classic – Releasing January 31. The Flash version of Claire Hart: Soul Searcher will go offline on January 29. The new HTML5 version, called Claire Hart Classic, will go live the same day. All the episodes that you purchased in the Flash version of Claire Hart: Soul Searcher will be owned by you in Claire Hart Classic! You can read more about Claire Hart Classic here.

Trizzle – Slated for late February. Learn more about this HTML5 update here.

Sweet Tooth Town – A new game is arriving here in Pogo! You can expect this to release in February.

My first thought when I saw ME was replacing SG as the marathon was “Oh Crap!” as I’d much rather do SG than ME. Then I saw this, so three marathons plus the Winter Quest in Feb? I’ll be picking what I do very carefully after I see the challenges.

“Mahjong Escape Badge Marathon – Starts February 5, with five new Challenges.

Ten-Game Badge Marathon – Slated to begin in mid-February.

Solitaire Gardens Badge Marathon – You’ll be able to give your green thumbs a workout on this one near the end of February.”

It’s just crazy, 3 Marathons in February, and the Winter Quest. And if the other 3 weekly badges are like the one coming out tomorrow it will be almost impossible to get everything done on time. They’ve lost their mind.

I so agree with you Suz..I’m getting very discouraged with all these marathons.. It just isn’t fun anymore.. Gaming is suppose to be fun and relaxing.. This is anything but.. I hope this will change soon because I’m tired out with stress..

Plus the Master Challenge. Plus extra weekly usually goes with that.
It seems like a lot again. Lots of us play pogo for fun. Working me
to death isn’t FUN! I don’t own all the badges never will. I don’t feel
the need to buy them all. Much nicer than wasting gems on overpriced
badges. If there’s a horrible challenge to earn an M n M I leave it
unbought lol. I got an EA card instead of forking over $100 for gems
because no sale. I got a great deal on them one for each of us lol.
So that makes it go down to the same cost as the big pack of gems.
Since no sale lol.

Think I’m going to let my membership run out now. They use the same 3 games it feels like for every single based game marathon in hopes to make gem sales. I’ve noticed less and less of my friends doing marathons lately. I’ve talked to a few and some aren’t renewing and are tired of the “newer mahjongs”.
Not a good sign for EA as they are being boycotted pretty bad by console and pc gamers as well… let’s hope they start listening to customers .. eventually.

Looks like we’re going to be kept very busy, and for free at that. for February!
Winter Odyssey – the “master” Jet Set challenge and “3rd” weekly challenges
GOTM – Word Whomp badges
MG Marathon – (ugh! from me)
10 badge Marathon – (yippee)
Solitaire Garden Marathon – could be fun to try a new garden and get additional badges
That’s a lot of badge work – have fun all 🙂

I will repeat what I always say.. I enjoy the free badges, the marathons are ridiculous anymore. I will work at my own pace, I don’t care if I get them done on time or not just for a few extra badges. No one can see them in chat anyways. I still have not completed last year badge album due to quinns and I am totally okay with that. i still pay for my membership just for the games that I like to play.

Sweet Tooth looks like a number of games available on mobile devices as well as on line. They start off easy and fun then get progressively more difficult unless you buy power ups. I play for awhile for fun then delete when it gets ridiculous. I’ll certainly check it out and am cautiously optimistic . Guess I win the “being ignored” by llama prize. I have asked a question with most blogs and have never been answered, most likely I don’t start out with enough praise 🙂

To me it looks like another game hijacked from a kid’s site, like Cookie Connect, that will be exactly as you described – changed-up to include the enticing purchase of power-ups to progress and all the rest of the silliness. Sigh.

I find it interesting that Pogo Lama won’t allow any negative comments. My guess is it’s because these negative posts would outnumber the good ones by 100 to 1. This just goes to prove that they just don’t care what members think! Any organization worth its salt would want to know how to improve customer service.

yes me too..always completed my yearly albums but when they added Quins I gave up..do not have funds to buy powerups and when they add free albums always check and if there is a QA I just wait out the month or week do not go into gifts..I have been a member for years and years..so if I don’t complete an album big deal I play to have fun and not be frustrated..and really it does not hurt to not complete an album ..its ok..but its so sad used to have so much fun playing POGO…

Too many badges to do in the shortest month of the year; Pogo is wearing everyone out.This is ridiculous; it’s being way overdone.Guess this is going to be their answer to taking tokens out whenever that happens. What I would like to know is whatever happened to site challenges? Haven’t seen one of them in ages.

You are so right Suz, I do like the way we all have to do our own now and not have to work so someone else gets badges and never play. I am happy to earn my own and if I don’t get it, then oh well. I enjoyed playing. I almost feel the same about tokens. Hopefully they will come up with a reward system most of us will like if/when it is done.
Lizz

Wow so much going on. Going to be very busy clicking away but will keep the “fun” and maintain a stress free play and do what can be done. If everything goes well, great if not, then will keep going until completed whenever that may be. 🙂 Afterwards will have many more badges added to my collection.

I love having all the free marathon badges! I don’t purchase any Mix-n-Match badges or Premium albums. I work on the free surveys to earn gems here and there and that’s the only time I purchase any badges. If there’s a badge that’s too hard, big deal. I’ll work at my own pace. I hope they keep having more free badges.

That’s an awful lot of marathons and challenges going on in February! I think they will be doable, though, but I like Mahjong Escape and Solitaire Gardens. I am only a little miffed that they moved Solitaire Gardens one to the end of the month, I haven’t done the latest levels so I would have something new to work on during that marathon… oh well, I will have TWO sets of new puzzles to do, that should last me through the entire marathon.

And I like Word Whomp as the game of the month too, so I won’t mind all the extra work.

Yipppeeee…..they won’t take the mini mall away…we can keep what we have. That is good news to me.
I agree with some of you that I will do the marathons at my own pace, and if I complete them, good, if not, oh well..

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